Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.